Quotes About Penal Code

According to the California Penal Code, prisoners have the legal right to marry. The prison approved Richard's marriage, and his and Doreen's names were added to the list of ten inmates marrying that day, three from death row. It was quickly pointed out to a curious journalist by San Quentin's public relations department that prisoners on death row do not have the right to conjugal visits.

As I have said before, that Federal Penal Code could never have been enacted into law if we had had a responsible press who was willing to tell the American people the truth about what it actually provides. Nor would we have had a bill had it not been for the United States Supreme Court.

We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.

A death sentence will be issued, a death sentence will be implemented. A life sentence will be issued, a life sentence will be implemented.

I love cops; I'm fascinated by the criminal justice system.

conviction for this offense can result in a prison sentence from three to ten years and/or a fine up to $25,000.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

Thieves must sit in prison.

The racism of the colonial state was also reflected in its penal code. The Criminal Tribes Legislation, 1911, gave authority to the British to restrict movement, search and even detain people from specific groups, because their members were deemed to be chronically engaging in 'criminal' activity. This was bad sociology and worse law, but it stayed on the books till after Independence. Worse, its effects were inhumane.

Foisie handcuffed Bindner and placed him under arrest for annoying and disturbing children—a violation of Section 647.6 of the California Penal Code.

Christianity may be good and Satanism evil. Under the Constitution, however, both are neutral. This is an important, but difficult, concept for many law enforcement officers to accept. They are paid to uphold the penal code, not the Ten Commandments … The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement, but few can argue with it.

The champions of militant Islam are, of course, misogynists, woman-haters; they are also misologists -- haters of reason. Their armed doctrine is little more than a chaotic penal code underscored by impotent dreams of genocide. And, like all religions, it is a massive agglutination of stock response, of cliches, of inherited and unexamined formulations.

In a perfect penal code, vulgarity would be punished with the death penalty.